MRC CAiTE fellowships, studentships and capacity building grants

 

2011

  1. Cartwright R (Postdoctoral fellow), Bennett P, Whalley A, Khular V (these three supervisors at main Centre), Lawlor DA (Main supervisor for work undertaken at MRC CAiTE; second centre), Spector T (Main supervisor for work completed at King's College London; third centre). The Genetic Basis of Urinary Incontinence in Women. MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship.  £244,701: 2011-2013.
  2. Howe LD (Postdoctoral fellow), Lawlor DA (Main supervisor), Tilling K. Longitudinal modelling of adiposity, its determinants and its health consequences across childhood and adolescence. MRC Health Services and Health of the Public Research Fellowship. £394,264: 2011-2015.
  3. Tobias J, Dieppe P, Davey Smith G (S Baker Clinical PhD Studentship). Characterisation of osteoarthritis phenotype in a unique multi-centre cohort of individuals with extremely high bone mass. Arthritis Research UK. £164,748: 1st August 2011-31st July 2014.

 

2010

  1. Santos AC (Postdoctoral Research Fellow), Barros H (Main Supervisor), Lawlor DA (Second Supervisor ). Desenvolvimento da obesidade na infância (Development of obesity in infancy). Portuguese Research Council, €225,000: 2010-2013.
  2. Luisa Zuccolo ((Post Doctoral  Research Fellow), Davey Smith G (Main Supervisor).  Prenatal alcohol exposure, childhood development and teenage drinking: a study of trans-generational effects. Medical Research Council,  £417,352: 2010 – 2014.

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2009

  1. Jago R (Research fellow), Lawlor DA ( Main Supervisor), Fox K (Second Supervisor). Parental and home environment influences on youth physical activity and screen-viewing: Preventing childhood obesity. NIHR Career Development Fellowship, £379,000: 2009-2014.
  2. Day I (PI), plus a consortium of supervisors.  Funding to establish a capacity building doctoral training centre populations, pathways and molecules: mathematical and statistical approaches (10 four (1+3) year Ph.D. studentships (BCSBmed). Medical Research Council, £823,100: 2009-2014.
  3. Day I, Rodriguez S, Overseas PhD studentship to Osama Al-Ghamdi.  Saudi Arabian Department of Education. £80,700: 2009-2012.
  4. Galobardes B (Research Fellow) Davey Smith G (Main Supervisor), Henderson J (2nd Supervisor).  Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellowship in life course inequalities in asthma: estimating its burden  and the understanding of its aetiology. Wellcome Trust,  £329,640: 2009-2014.
  5. Lambert H (Sponsor), Davey Smith G (Co-supervisor). ESRC/MRC Interdisciplinary Fellowship for Caroline Wilson. £144,662: 2009-2011.

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2008

  1. Fraser A (Post doctoral fellow), Lawlor DA (Main supervisor), Windmeijer F (Second supervisor). Obstetric, lifestyle and genetic determinants of vascular and metabolic traits in women in early middle-age. MRC health services and health of the public research fellowship. £336,579: 2008-2012.
  2. Brion MJ (Fellow), Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA (CAiTE Supervisors), Victora C, Hirschhorn J, Lewis SJ, Pena S, Sterne J, Matijasevich A. Public health consequences of modifiable maternal exposures: offspring obesity and cognitive health in two cohorts in the UK and Brazil. Wellcome Trust (Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship). £250 000: 2008-2012.
  3. Freathy R (Fellow), Frayling T, Hattersley A, Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA (CAiTE Supervisors), Metzger BE, Cox NJ. Maternal and offspring genetics in fetal and childhood growth. Wellcome Trust (Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship). £250 000: 2008-2012.
  4. Davey Smith G, Martin R, Day INM.  Molecular, genetic and lifecourse epidemiology. PhD programme to provide 3 PhD students per year for 6 years. Wellcome Trust.  £2.9 million, 2008-2012.

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2007

  1. Day INM, Gaunt TR.  Specific project: datamining developments to identify members of a newly defined category of QTLs: splice-translational efficiency polymorphisms (STEPS), Medical Research Council capacity building studentship in bioinformatics,£79,012:2007-2011.
  2. Gregson CL (Post Doctoral Fellow), Tobias J (First Supervisor), Davey Smith G (Second Supervisor). Investigation of the epidemiology and heritability of high bone mass. Wellcome Trust, £405,008: 2007-2010.

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